Author: Nirmalya Sen

OES is gaining momentum with its new release 2.10, bringing new groundbreaking capability- Policy Management– to help customers enforce policies into their software deployments with easy and simple steps. It also brings more visibility into policy compliance, which is a major enhancement to the Audit feature. Highlights also include a new way of Account Management that provides customers the ability…

IT managers create different policies to allow software programs to run in various machines and domains. They also delineate restriction policies to prevent untrusted code from running in any system. Large enterprises enforce some policies that are mandated w.r.t HIPPA or SOX laws. The notion of policy enforcement is to maintain the reliability and availability of the entire IT ecosystem.…

Introduction The recommended way to deploy Spinnaker is in a Kubernetes environment. In this tutorial, we will show you how easy it is to setup a Spinnaker instance in Kubernetes using helm charts. You can have a Spinnaker up and running in less than 20 minutes. To be successful, the Kubernetes cluster needs to support: 18G of memory and 6…

It was encouraging to see a buzzing crowd on a Saturday morning all eager to learn and share information about Spinnaker. There were some great keynotes and great sessions on new things in Spinnaker as well as real-life experiences using Spinnaker. There were some sessions that particularly caught my attention that I would like to share. Dynamic Account Configuration This…

1. What is Open Enterprise Spinnaker (OES)? Open Enterprise Spinnaker (OES) is Enterprise Ready Continuous Delivery and Verification Platform. OES is built on 6 Fundamental Pillars of Application Delivery. Open Enterprise Spinnaker is the open-source Spinnaker bundled with additional features that make it enterprise-ready. These include an analytics dashboard, auditing, log management and additional custom stages along with some best…

Spinnaker has some quirks when enabled for ldap authentication, especially the login URL. When deploying Spinnaker using the published Helm chart, gate is available on /gate on deck. But the login URL gets routed to /login and after successful login routed to /auth/redirect instead of being relative to the gate base url! The setup works very well when you have…